Sports retail tycoon Mike Ashley this week spent £37 million buying assets from bust DW Sports, the business founded by his longstanding rival Dave Whelan.
The move by Ashley’s Frasers group saved 922 jobs as he snapped up 46 of its gym leisure clubs and 31 shops, some of which are combined on the same site.
Administrator BDO said 19 retail outlets and 29 leisure clubs were closed during the administration, with around 800 jobs lost.
The full list of sites which are expected to remain open under Ashley’s Frasers is below.
Ballymena
Bangor NI
Bangor Wales
Barrow
Birstall
Blackburn (Currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions)
Brentwood
Bristol Cabot Circus
Bristol Filton HC
Bromborough
Brooklands
Byker
Cambridge
Canterbury
Cardiff Leckwith
Cardiff Queens West
Chelmsford
Cheltenham (Retail)
Cheltenham HC
Coatbridge (Glasgow) (Currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions)
Coleraine
Derby (Retail)
Derby (Leisure)
Dundee (Currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions)
Dunfermiline
Dunstable
Ewell
Gateshead (aka Metrocentre)
Glasgow Fort
Gloucester
Halifax
Huddersfield
Inverness
Ipswich
Kirkcaldy
Leigh
Lincoln
Liverpool
Llanelli
Londonderry
Macclesfield
Merthyr Tydfil
Milton Keynes
Morecambe
Newport
Newtownabbey
Nottingham
Nottingham Riverside
Poole
Selby
Shawbridge
Southport
St Helens
Sunderland
Swindon (Retail)
Swindon HC
Thorpe Bay
Tunstall
Wigan Grand Arcade
Worcester
Wrexham
